RDP Clipboard Fix – via Remko Weijnen’s Blog (Remko’s Blog)

RDP Clipboard Fix is the client-side fix for loosing your RDP clipboard (server side fix is killing the RDPClip process). Since his site is not archived but some of the links have 404’s, here is the full article with fixed WayBack links:

Did you ever loose Clipboard functionality (copy/paste) while working with several Terminal Server sessions? I think everyone that works a lot with Terminal Server has experienced this from time to time.

It’s caused by badly behaving applications. Dimitry Vostokov wrote a tool to fix this issue for Citrix (RepairCBDChain.exe), he explains the issue very well on his blog:

Windows has a mechanism to notify applications about clipboard changes. An application interested in such notifications has to register itself in the so called clipboard chain. Windows inserts it on top of that chain and that application is responsible to propagate changes down the chain:

If 3rd-party application forgets to forward notifications down then we have a broken clipboard chain and clipboard changes are not sent via ICA protocol: